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| Do not only use colors or text to indicate the notes' author. It would be nice to enhance this information by a little picture of the author like in chat programs. Implementation Example: Today, many systems provide pictures for the entries in the adress book of the user. This adresss book can be accessed by other programs (e.g. Evolution Data Server in Gnome). Use the pictures of the address book entries. | | Do not only use colors or text to indicate the notes' author. It would be nice to enhance this information by a little picture of the author like in chat programs. Implementation Example: Today, many systems provide pictures for the entries in the adress book of the user. This adresss book can be accessed by other programs (e.g. Evolution Data Server in Gnome). Use the pictures of the address book entries. | ||
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| The icon for "Shadow" in OpenOffice.org Draw looks very similar to a yellow note (at least in Ubuntu Linux 7.04). This icon which represents a yellow box with shade should be changed if we plan to re-implement the Notes Functionality in Draw or Impress. | | The icon for "Shadow" in OpenOffice.org Draw looks very similar to a yellow note (at least in Ubuntu Linux 7.04). This icon which represents a yellow box with shade should be changed if we plan to re-implement the Notes Functionality in Draw or Impress. | ||
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| Use small icons in the notes window to indicate special status (e.g. priority, work status, digitally signed). | | Use small icons in the notes window to indicate special status (e.g. priority, work status, digitally signed). | ||
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| Colors | | Colors | ||
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| Same Colors for The Same Authors | | Same Colors for The Same Authors | ||
* Actual state: Even in Microsoft Office (2003), each program does implement the notes function a little bit different. Therefore, Excel seems not provide any color for different authors, Word and PowerPoint use completely different color schemes. Therefore the user will not see any dependence between the document authors. | * Actual state: Even in Microsoft Office (2003), each program does implement the notes function a little bit different. Therefore, Excel seems not provide any color for different authors, Word and PowerPoint use completely different color schemes. Therefore the user will not see any dependence between the document authors. | ||
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| Use some kind of additional layer inside the Writer to display notes on top of the document. This would enable a more “direct” handling of notes information. | | Use some kind of additional layer inside the Writer to display notes on top of the document. This would enable a more “direct” handling of notes information. | ||
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| Notes Property Data (Missing User Data) | | Notes Property Data (Missing User Data) | ||
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| In many cases, the user do not complete the form of the user data (Extra – Options – General). Then, we do not have sufficient information to display the author's name inside the notes. | | In many cases, the user do not complete the form of the user data (Extra – Options – General). Then, we do not have sufficient information to display the author's name inside the notes. | ||
* Implementation Example 1: If the user data seems not be correct, ask the user for his/her user data before creating the notes. | * Implementation Example 1: If the user data seems not be correct, ask the user for his/her user data before creating the notes. | ||
* Implementation Example 2: Simply create the note for “anonymous” without bothering the user with another dialog. | * Implementation Example 2: Simply create the note for “anonymous” without bothering the user with another dialog. | ||
* Implementation Example 3: Make the user data work with the data of the environment (e.g. the personal data in the Gnome environment) | * Implementation Example 3: Make the user data work with the data of the environment (e.g. the personal data in the Gnome environment) | ||
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+ | Status: The idea has been rejected, or better, implementation example 2 will be used. The discussion take place on 2008-04-28 via email between mod and christophnoack. | ||
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| 2007-05-13 | | 2007-05-13 | ||
| christophnoack | | christophnoack | ||
| Notes Property Data (Select Author) | | Notes Property Data (Select Author) | ||
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| My friend of mine told me, that she wished to choose the authors name in the actual document. I don't like the idea, but I have to admit that in many cases, the people do not login with different user names and therefore do have the same user ID for the notes. This may be true even for small business users. | | My friend of mine told me, that she wished to choose the authors name in the actual document. I don't like the idea, but I have to admit that in many cases, the people do not login with different user names and therefore do have the same user ID for the notes. This may be true even for small business users. | ||
* Implementation Example 1: If the user changes his user data (Extra – Options – General) use this data for newly created note. In such a case, we have to avoid automatic change of the user ID in already created notes. | * Implementation Example 1: If the user changes his user data (Extra – Options – General) use this data for newly created note. In such a case, we have to avoid automatic change of the user ID in already created notes. | ||
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| Issues | | Issues | ||
| Sort And Filter Notes | | Sort And Filter Notes | ||
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| Sorting and filtering of notes information on the basis of user defined criteria. This has been a request in several issues. | | Sorting and filtering of notes information on the basis of user defined criteria. This has been a request in several issues. | ||
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| Task Management | | Task Management | ||
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| Notes often contain information on remaining tasks inside the document (e.g. “re-structure this section“). From experience, many users do not delete these kind of notes when they finish the task. Or, the users want to have an overview on the remaining tasks inside the document. But how to deal with that? Maybe it would be nice to provide a small (!!!) task management. Insert a small task management with e.g. | | Notes often contain information on remaining tasks inside the document (e.g. “re-structure this section“). From experience, many users do not delete these kind of notes when they finish the task. Or, the users want to have an overview on the remaining tasks inside the document. But how to deal with that? Maybe it would be nice to provide a small (!!!) task management. Insert a small task management with e.g. | ||
* Work status of the note (e.g. Information only, Task, Task Finished) | * Work status of the note (e.g. Information only, Task, Task Finished) | ||
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| Reply to Note | | Reply to Note | ||
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| If a several users work on one document, they want to respond to other people's notes information. Currently, they are forced to create another note (which does not have any information that it is related to another note) or they edit the original note (Problem 1: What to do with the notes property data like author and time/date?; Problem 2: This is not possible if e.g. a note is digitally signed). It would be nice to provide some functionality to reply to somebodies note (also mentioned in Issue 6193, zerohalo Wed Aug 22 2007). | | If a several users work on one document, they want to respond to other people's notes information. Currently, they are forced to create another note (which does not have any information that it is related to another note) or they edit the original note (Problem 1: What to do with the notes property data like author and time/date?; Problem 2: This is not possible if e.g. a note is digitally signed). It would be nice to provide some functionality to reply to somebodies note (also mentioned in Issue 6193, zerohalo Wed Aug 22 2007). | ||
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| Automatically Create Notes Information | | Automatically Create Notes Information | ||
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| Automatically create a note when other content gets inserted in the current document. It could be used to provide information on the source document, e.g. “Diagram was inserted by Wai Lin on 06/03/2008. Name of the source document is StealthCoating.xls which was created by Elliot Carver.” | | Automatically create a note when other content gets inserted in the current document. It could be used to provide information on the source document, e.g. “Diagram was inserted by Wai Lin on 06/03/2008. Name of the source document is StealthCoating.xls which was created by Elliot Carver.” | ||
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| AutoAbstract for Notes | | AutoAbstract for Notes | ||
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| Enhance the auto abstract function to send a question concerning one or several notes inside the document. Use Case: The current editor (Joe) of the document has some question concerning a special topic inside the document or a note which has been inserted by another author (Sarah). Joe clicks on “ask Sarah via email” inside the notes option menu and Writer creates an email which already includes the notes text and the document text which surrounds the current note. Joe adds his special question and sends the email. | | Enhance the auto abstract function to send a question concerning one or several notes inside the document. Use Case: The current editor (Joe) of the document has some question concerning a special topic inside the document or a note which has been inserted by another author (Sarah). Joe clicks on “ask Sarah via email” inside the notes option menu and Writer creates an email which already includes the notes text and the document text which surrounds the current note. Joe adds his special question and sends the email. | ||
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| AutoAbstract for Notes | | AutoAbstract for Notes | ||
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| Realize or enhance an auto-abstract-functionality for the notes (similar to the already existing auto-abstract for the document text). It could be used to extract the notes user data (text) and the document text which surrounds the notes anchor. | | Realize or enhance an auto-abstract-functionality for the notes (similar to the already existing auto-abstract for the document text). It could be used to extract the notes user data (text) and the document text which surrounds the notes anchor. | ||
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| Referring by Using Hyperlinks | | Referring by Using Hyperlinks | ||
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| Change Tracking Integration | | Change Tracking Integration | ||
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| The idea shows one rough proposal how the change tracking feature may be integrated into the Notes functionality. | | The idea shows one rough proposal how the change tracking feature may be integrated into the Notes functionality. | ||
* The structure of the change tracking windows is similar to the Notes Windows | * The structure of the change tracking windows is similar to the Notes Windows |
Revision as of 06:55, 30 April 2008
This page contains other ideas for the new Notes Functionality for e.g. usability improvements, organizing the notes, or advanced text editing functions. These topics can be discussed, if you like. At the moment we want to make sure that no idea is lost (besides the information already available in the issues).
Date Raised | Source | Summary | Status | Details |
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2007-05-01 | christophnoack | Chat-like Icons | New | Do not only use colors or text to indicate the notes' author. It would be nice to enhance this information by a little picture of the author like in chat programs. Implementation Example: Today, many systems provide pictures for the entries in the adress book of the user. This adresss book can be accessed by other programs (e.g. Evolution Data Server in Gnome). Use the pictures of the address book entries. |
2007-05-01 | christophnoack | Draw/Impress | New | The icon for "Shadow" in OpenOffice.org Draw looks very similar to a yellow note (at least in Ubuntu Linux 7.04). This icon which represents a yellow box with shade should be changed if we plan to re-implement the Notes Functionality in Draw or Impress. |
2007-05-01 | christophnoack | Status Icons | New | Use small icons in the notes window to indicate special status (e.g. priority, work status, digitally signed). |
2007-05-12 | christophnoack | Colors | New | Same Colors for The Same Authors
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2007-05-07 | cj | “Handwritten Notes” | New | Use some kind of additional layer inside the Writer to display notes on top of the document. This would enable a more “direct” handling of notes information. |
2007-05-13 | christophnoack | Notes Property Data (Missing User Data) | Rejected | In many cases, the user do not complete the form of the user data (Extra – Options – General). Then, we do not have sufficient information to display the author's name inside the notes.
Status: The idea has been rejected, or better, implementation example 2 will be used. The discussion take place on 2008-04-28 via email between mod and christophnoack. |
2007-05-13 | christophnoack | Notes Property Data (Select Author) | New | My friend of mine told me, that she wished to choose the authors name in the actual document. I don't like the idea, but I have to admit that in many cases, the people do not login with different user names and therefore do have the same user ID for the notes. This may be true even for small business users.
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2007-05-01 | Issues | Sort And Filter Notes | New | Sorting and filtering of notes information on the basis of user defined criteria. This has been a request in several issues.
At the moment there exist two main ideas with its own advantages and disadvantages:
Please note that this are really early mockups which are primarily intended to show the general idea!
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2007-05-01 | Issues | Task Management | New | Notes often contain information on remaining tasks inside the document (e.g. “re-structure this section“). From experience, many users do not delete these kind of notes when they finish the task. Or, the users want to have an overview on the remaining tasks inside the document. But how to deal with that? Maybe it would be nice to provide a small (!!!) task management. Insert a small task management with e.g.
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2007-05-03 | christophnoack | Reply to Note | New | If a several users work on one document, they want to respond to other people's notes information. Currently, they are forced to create another note (which does not have any information that it is related to another note) or they edit the original note (Problem 1: What to do with the notes property data like author and time/date?; Problem 2: This is not possible if e.g. a note is digitally signed). It would be nice to provide some functionality to reply to somebodies note (also mentioned in Issue 6193, zerohalo Wed Aug 22 2007).
The following image shows two replies to each the previous note: Some thoughts concerning the previous mockup:
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2007-05-06 | christophnoack | Automatically Create Notes Information | New | Automatically create a note when other content gets inserted in the current document. It could be used to provide information on the source document, e.g. “Diagram was inserted by Wai Lin on 06/03/2008. Name of the source document is StealthCoating.xls which was created by Elliot Carver.” |
2007-05-06 | christophnoack | AutoAbstract for Notes | New | Enhance the auto abstract function to send a question concerning one or several notes inside the document. Use Case: The current editor (Joe) of the document has some question concerning a special topic inside the document or a note which has been inserted by another author (Sarah). Joe clicks on “ask Sarah via email” inside the notes option menu and Writer creates an email which already includes the notes text and the document text which surrounds the current note. Joe adds his special question and sends the email. |
2007-05-06 | christophnoack | AutoAbstract for Notes | New | Realize or enhance an auto-abstract-functionality for the notes (similar to the already existing auto-abstract for the document text). It could be used to extract the notes user data (text) and the document text which surrounds the notes anchor. |
2007-10-12 | christophnoack | Referring by Using Hyperlinks | New |
Referring from one note to each other by using Hyperlinks. Example: Lets have a note at position A and a note at position B (in another section). But how to represent the note? Should we draw a Note Connector Line from position B to A (not really obvious and clear) or should we provide the a Notes Window with the same content (this is something the user does not find in the real world, because he does not write on one sheet of paper and on another one the content changes too). Proposal: So my proposal would be to just "link" from one note to another note. Think about something like a hyperlink which could easily be added from the e.g. the Navigator which - even today - features creating links from objects (e.g. drag-and-drop). Okay, this may require some additional work for the user (cross-reference both notes), but provides much more flexibility for other tasks. The biggest advantage is, that it would make use of a concept that is already available in Writer. The text was taken from Discussion of Notes2. |
2008-04-27 | christophnoack | Change Tracking Integration | New | The idea shows one rough proposal how the change tracking feature may be integrated into the Notes functionality.
When the project Notes2 was started, it has been decided to not consider the change tracking functionality, although it is related to the Notes - from the user's point of view. This makes it hard now, to implement a "sane" behavior. |